O LORD MY FATHER CHANGE RULES FOR MY SAKE
Message of Pastor Olawole Dahunsi

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Psalm 34:10 “The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.”

Psalm 34:8-9 “O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. 9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.”

God can because of a single person turn things around. He can also waste a whole generation because of one person. If God wants to bless a person, He has the capacity to take that person out to the place of his blessing. There is no rule that can stand when God want to do something. When He wanted to move the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt He sacrificed their entire first born including that of the animals. When God saw that the red sea was going to obstruct them, He made the red sea to form a wall and the children of Israel to walk on dry land through the red sea - a mystery. There is nothing our God cannot do. In the days of David, we are told that Goliath was very tall and stout even Saul was afraid but because God wanted to glorify Himself, he raised a small boy with a single stone to bring Goliath down. Such is the attribute of our God. He can promote and demote. In the time of Nebuchadnezzar, He turned him into an animal so that he can know who God is. Here we see that our God is a God of mystery. He does not disappoint those who trust in him.

Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”

What is a rule?

·        A rule is an official way of doing something; that is it has been laid down. It becomes a standard or a pattern. In the civil service for example, the rule says; you can only be promoted after 4 year of services. But when God want to change rules, God can promote a person before that time. When God wants to change things, that official way of doing things, He can change it.

·        A rule is an authorize way of conduct; a convention.

·        It is an established way of doing something.

·        It is a guide put in place by the governing body in order to guild a body/establishment. Like the medical association that governs the practice of medicine, the NBA governs the practices of Law etc. In the army, if a lieutenant is already seated and a major comes in, it is a rule that the lieutenant stands up, salutes the major and vacates the seat for him.

·        A rule can also be called a command, a statue, a verdict and a judgment. I pray for you that evil judgment upon your life shall be broken in the name of Jesus.

·        A rule can be seen as a pronouncement

·        A rule can also be seen as a decision

·        A rule can be seen as a decree

·        It can also be seen as a pronouncement put in place that applies to everyone

·        Rules carry the weight of the authority that gives it.

·        Rules, whether the person who made it is there or not, it still exist. Rules can exist for a long time.

There are powers too both in the physical and the spiritual realm that can put up a rule against a person. A brother bought a car and took it to the village. At night, in his dream, he had a visitor that asks him ‘who had ever bought this kind of car in your family? No one ever buys a car in your father’s house. That was how he went to start the car in the morning but it did not start. All efforts to repair the car were in vain.

·        A rule can be a limitation, something that subjects you to a restriction. I remember a brother who in his father’s house, they die at 50. At 48 he saw the next person die so he ran to church. Now he is 60 years old. So God can change rules.
There are so many families that have not risen beyond where their father stopped and the Bible says that were are expected to be better than our fathers. So many families, people do not go beyond their father- why? Evil rules.

Powers that make rules

·        Ancestral powers - these are powers that controls the ancestry of a family. It knows everything about the family. They have been there from your grandparents. So they set limits. They are powers that know you too well.

·        Witchcraft powers. Sometimes witchcraft comes in to a family through polygamy. Any polygamous family that there is witchcraft, there will be limitation.

·        Evil foundation can set a limit to a person’s life.

·        Environmental powers - there are powers in the environment that subject people to poverty in that area. They can give rule that nobody prospers in this environment. There is a town I know that if a million is given to her indigene to start business, that business will fail but if they leave the area even for one mile, they will make it.

·        Star hunter – powers that hunt stars. Immediately they see you, they know your star. Even when a baby is born into the family, they know. So they set a standard.

·        Evil priest.

·        Evil/satanic parent. There are parents that do not want their children to rise above them so they issue curses on them. I pray for you that every such curse over your life shall be broken in the name of Jesus.

Let see what God does when He want to change rules

1.      When God want to change rules, He appears Himself in his power. You will see that this is truly the finger of God. It was God that made Joseph a prime minister without anyone asking ‘where do you come from?’ Esther became queen by the hand of God

2.      when he want to change rules, He gives you wisdom – makes you wise like Daniel

3.      He gives instruction through the Holy Spirit.

4.      He raises a helper - a helper that will raise you up, that will support you and remove obstacles for you.

5.      He raises a voice – somebody will be speaking for that person.

6.      He gives you good vision, good dreams; he appeared to Joseph and showed him his future.

7.      He sends good relationship. He can give you good wife /husband. He can also give you a good teacher. He can give you a good pastor who will inspire to discover yourself and fly like an eagle. He can give you a good mentor

What must we do for rules to change?

§  You must know your God. “…but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.” If a person does not know God, he/she will be exploited. Rules will not change for their sake. They suffer under rules. Even when Joseph was a prisoner, he was made to be in charge of other prisoners. If you know God, He does what no man can do. He can help you beyond your capacity.

§  Learn to trade and profit with God. Challenge God, tell Him “God only you can help me”

§  Be obedient to the word of God.

Rules have to change for you to move forward. If certain rules are not change, one can be limited for ever. But when God sets aside those rules, the movement of that person will be like lightening. I pray that every rule that is hindering your progress shall be uprooted by fire.

Prayers

My father, if there is any rule in my father’s house that is making me stagnant, remove it now in Jesus name.

Every rule stagnating my destiny, scatter in Jesus name.

Rules that will not allow men and women succeed in my father’s house, break in Jesus name.

Holy Ghost fire, take me above all evil rules in my father’s house today in Jesus name.

Any power that has vowed to suffer me this month, die in Jesus name.